The former Miss Universe didn’t waste time in taking her $20,000 check to one of her favorite charities in New York —The Latino Commission on AIDS— an organization focused on giving Latinos the help, support and research needed to fight HIV/AIDS.

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“That’s exactly what happens with the Celebrity Apprentice, we are all fighting for the same goal, although we are all fighting for good,” said the former beauty queen.

Mendoza’s charity is the Latino Commission on AIDS. “I’ve been working with them since the Miss Universe Pageant,” she said.

She says she feels like she can “relate with the part of being a foreigner working in the United States.”

“To hang out with your community, to talk about the same things, in your same language, they made me feel so comfortable, they welcomed me and why wouldn’t I keep working with them when I feel they are my family,” Mendoza said of the organization.

For the first time in Celebrity Apprentice history, there are two Latinas competing for the grand prize, Mendoza and Venezuelan actress Patricia Velasquez.

“I was happy to be there with her, I didn’t know her before the show, but I was lucky to be working with somebody that was really genuine, a hard worker,” but not someone who would “step on anybody’s toes,” Mendoza said.

However someone who was not afraid to step on any toes, amongst other things, was comedian Lisa Lampanelli.

While Mendoza may have a crown she is no Drama Queen. It was comedian Lampanelli who took that title this season by making her mouth “part of her performance” quipped the Venezuelan.

After the Apprentice, Mendoza hopes to keep hosting, something she fell in love with it after hosting the E! Latino show “Relaxed.”

Her advice for anyone looking for success is “appreciating who you really are.” Mendoza said “a lot of people want to be like someone else or look like someone else, its appreciating and loving who you really are” that makes someone stand out.

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